Baz Hall was born Basil Hall in Mackay QLD, Australia, and at a very young age moved to a dairy farm at a place called Rise and Shine just north of Mackay. It was here he got his first taste of country life living as part of two families in a small house, with kerosene lanterns and fridge, wood stove, and relying totally on water tanks for water supply. From as early as he can remember he realized he loved music and especially when he heard country music it did something special to him and it was on the farm he used to listen to country music on a battery radio and played 78 rpm records on a wind up gramophone, and, living in the country, shopping wasn’t convenient, so if the needles used for the gramophone wore out, the family would use rose thorns which worked as the next best thing. It was then he heard the great stars of the early 50s’ – Lefty Frizzel, Hank Williams, Ernest Tubb, Jean Shepherd, Patti Page, Slim Whitman, and Australia’s Tex Morton, Slim Dusty, Frank Ifield and many more - and still affectionately remembers and loves the Australian hillbilly songs of the time. The music of these times touched him, so he tried singing to himself around the farm, found he enjoyed it, and could hold a tune, so he knew he would someday sing himself in public.Baz and his family had some happy and joyful times on the farm but also endured the hard times and drought conditions that eventually forced the family from the farm, and although he was very young it broke his heart to leave. The Hall family moved a short distance south to Pindi Pindi where Bazs’ father worked on a sugar cane farm for a time, then moved to Mackay where Baz spent most of his life. Baz hated school and although told he was capable of good things educationally, he couldn’t settle down or concentrate at school so left school at Grade 7, barely 14 years old and worked as a labourer at various types of jobs including sugar cane cutting, timber mill, cattle property, retail stores. He married Marjorie Macfarlane and had 3 sons, Marty, Jason and Jemal and although a couple of them can play a guitar, never took on music as seriously as their father. He landed a job he always yearned for as a fire fighter in the Mackay Fire Service where he worked his way through to the rank of officer, a supervisory position who ran the duty shift. It was here he received a ‘Certificate Of Commendation’ from the Queensland Government for actions he performed at a car crash/ LP gas emergency. From a young age and through these times Baz played music as a sideline and was sometimes called “The Singing Fireman’. He enjoyed most of the country stars that came along after the previously mentioned early years, and was greatly influenced by such artists as Merle Haggard, Buck Owens, Mel Tillis, Bobby Bare, and more recently, his favourite artists, Alan Jackson, Gene Watson, George Jones, Sammy Kershaw, Slim Dusty and Vern Gosdin. He loves the music of Australia’s Slim Dusty, and played and enjoyed his music all of his life though he felt he could never do very well in the music industry doing Slims’ music at gigs, as he felt that Slim was the one with the style and song writing talent and was born with the voice to perform the all Australian and tremendously popular ‘Bush Ballads’ - so didn’t play his music at gigs and it wasn’t until 2006 that he recorded a couple of Slim Dusty songs on a couple of albums and was then happy that he did. Through the years Baz has entered and won placing’s in a number of country music competitions in Charters Towers, Mackay, and Tamworth to name a few. He one time entered one of the biggest and richest competitions of the time which attracted very talented and fierce competition from all over Australia and New Zealand in which he received fourth place and was highly commended. The competition was held in Mackay and was hosted by the very well known and respected country music supporter and radio presenter ‘Nick Erby.’ Baz Hall is now working as a full time musician and has recorded 6 albums to date – 5 country music albums, and one album of easy listening pop 60s’ songs with orchestra backing, just to widen the market and also shows Baz’s singing versatility. As all Australians know, Tamworth city is the capitol of country music in Australia as Nashville is in America, and Tamworth is where the annual country music festival is held and all the major awards to the various artists for their talent and achievements for the year are awarded. There have been five entries of Bazs’ albums in the ‘Tamworth Independent Artists Awards’ and all entries have been nominated as a top 5 finalist amongst extremely talented competition from thousands of entries from all over Australia and New Zealand. Baz plans to keep recording and travelling the eastern and southern states of Australia performing and selling his CDs’.